The city of Madison’s review of the effectiveness of similar gun bounty programs in Baltimore and Miami is still pending, but Mayor Paul Soglin is starting an unofficial program in Madison immediately. His office will pay up to $1,000 to anyone reporting illegal guns.

Earlier this month, the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity sent a letter to each state requesting voter information such as birth dates, party affiliation, the last four digits of Social Security numbers and more. The request was condemned nationwide and several states, including Wisconsin, have refused to fully comply...

For the third year in a row, Wisconsin is on track to have more than 500 traffic-related deaths. Preliminary data from the state Department of Transportation shows 271 traffic fatalities in the first half of the year, that's one fewer than in the same period in 2016.

On the heels of a federal judge’s ruling that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections make "drastic" changes at its youth prisons, Democratic state Sen. Lena Taylor is again calling for additional reforms.

Another member of the business community said it would support increasing Wisconsin's gas tax, but only if the state's minimum markup law is repealed for gasoline purchases. Wal-Mart said it would support raising the gas tax by up to five cents per gallon

After a federal judge ordered changes at Wisconsin's troubled youth prisons, Lincoln Hills School for Boys and Copper Hill School for Girls, we look at promises to curtail solitary confinement, the use of pepper spray, and more.

WPR's State Capitol Bureau Chief examines the give-and-take as the two Republican caucuses work through compromise spending on road projects, K-12 public schools and tax cuts. We'll get the latest on the state budget process and what it means for Wisconsinites.

A federal judge has ordered the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to make a series of changes at Wisconsin's juvenile prisons to reduce the use of solitary confinement and pepper spray by Friday, July 21.

Half the counties in the U.S. had reductions in addictive prescription painkillers, like oxycodone, between 2010 and 2015, according to the report released Thursday. In Wisconsin, the drop was more widespread.

Bayfield County officials say they’ve begun formal settlement talks with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources over an ordinance that would go beyond state standards for large farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. The two were set to defend their positions on the ordinance in Bayfield County...

The University of Wisconsin Regents have been meeting to determine the operating budget for the UW system this year and how to address campus free speech. We speak with Karen Herzog of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the news.